Passengers Brave a War Zone’s Skies

The New York Times

From a plane wheeling east at 30,000 feet, leaving behind the hills and patchwork farms of Lebanon, the Syrian desert ripples to the horizon like a tide-sculpted beach.

Somewhere off to the south is the capital, Damascus, where government warplanes bombard rebellious suburbs and insurgent mortar shells fly toward the city center. To the north is Homs, its center crushed to rubble from years of fighting, and further ahead lies Deir al-Zour, the desert province where American fighter jets bomb oil wells run by Islamic State militants.

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